[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 65 (Friday, April 7, 1995)]
[House]
[Page H4420]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     YES, AMERICA, WE ARE LISTENING

  (Mr. GOSS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Speaker, the gentlewoman from Texas spoke about hopes. 
She enumerated hopes. We all share the hopes for our country. We all 
have great aspirations. We all are doing our best to meet the 
challenges of this Nation. I think it is fair to say our hopes are the 
same.
  It is just how we achieve those hopes is a little different. We come 
to Washington with a plan. We are putting that plan into effect, and we 
hope it is going to solve problems rather than sustain problems, which 
is what the program of the previous 40 years has done.
  This is a great country, and this is a great Chamber. We can express 
different views here and still have the same hopes for our great 
Nation.
  The gentlewoman has said that we have followed the polls. That is 
backwards. The polls have followed us in this.
  The gentlewoman has said that our agenda is somehow gimmickry. I do 
not think so. It has achieved a great deal of bipartisanship and 
support. If you look at every single vote that was taken, it had people 
from both sides of the aisle supporting our agenda.
  The difference is we have been listening to America while they have 
been defending 40 years of programs that do not work.
  Yes, America, we are listening, and we are beginning, and we are 
going to go forward, and together in a bipartisan way we are going to 
achieve reality for those hopes so that everybody in America is truly 
an American with a quality of life that measures the American dream we 
all have.


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